Everyone in your family speaks English and Spanish. Your cousin, who just had a baby, has decided that he wants to wait until his child's sensitive period for language is over before teaching him English. What is a sensitive period? Is your cousin's idea a good one?
What will be an ideal response?
A sensitive period is a time of human development when the capacity for learning in a specific area is especially pronounced. I should tell my cousin that it is easier to learn a second language in early and middle childhood than it is later in life. Also, after learning English in the sensitive period, his child will not need to use it often in order to remember it.
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